A long time coming, Anglican conservatives—we call them Episcopalians in the States—voted today for a mini-split from the Anglican Communion. Technically, they will remain within the church, but will not submit to the authority of a council of African bishops and not the Archbishop...

I’ve been on a Jeff Sharlet kick of late, and this morning I will be interviewing him about his new book, “The Family.” I considered this as worthy a time as any to pull my favorite article from the Sharlet archives. It’s about young, hip and devout Christians unwilling to budge on...

Kern County Auditor-Controller-County Clerk Ann Barnett—that’s a mouthful—really didn’t want to perform same-sex marriages. So when the California Supreme Court ruled last month that prohibiting the exchanging of vows, official vows not civil unions, was unconstitutional, Barnett...

Repairing the hymen is a 30-minute surgery that costs just under $3,000 and involves a small cut and some 30 stitches. It’s purpose is to provide “the illusion of virginity,” the New York Times reports in tomorrow’s paper:

By the way, it was nice to see Mollie at GetReligion shares my frustration with the poorly reported, knee-jerk news features about how Christians were struggling with and celebrating the court’s decision.

Outdoor advertising company Maximedia has notified the distributors of ‘Sex in the City’ Forum Films and its publicist, Golan Advertising - that the movie based on the popular TV series of the same name will not be allowed to advertise in Jerusalem and Petah...

You can say a lot of things as a tenured faculty member that you could not say as a service worker or administrator—positions that are not tenured. Case in point: Crystal Dixon was fired as the associate vp of human resources at the University of Toledo after she wrote a column...

Gentlemen, you may have heard that every time you pleasure yourself sexually, God kills a kitten. The guys from XXXChurch remind us of this reality—based on the biblical story of Onan, whom God deemed wicked for “spilling his seed” so his brother’s widow would not become pregnant—...

“The Sextival will showcase the wildest things your imagination can come up with,” the excited Kirshenboim promises. “You know, some people have a fetish for women with really-really big noses, and this will also be represented in the event.”

Ha’aretz reports that Israel’s first Hooters restaurant—you know, the place with the wings—is causing a big stir with religious Jews. In the United States, you’d like people have better things to worry about than the lascivious leanings of a lame bar, but in Israel I’m sure they do....

A colleague just sent me an email with this subject: “Pastor in Atlanta fathers child of his brother’s wife ‘His nephew is his son!’ OY VEY.” I did a Google News search and found this story from the Associated Press last night.

In the semi-autobiographical play "Random Sharp Objects," two Jewish women engage in a kind of impromptu psychoanalysis session. Hali (Hali Morell) describes growing up with a hippie-therapist Dad who talked too frankly about sex. As an adult, she says, she was drawn to a series of...

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